thread of youtubers whomst are not terrible

The Raccoon Whisperer has expanded his horizons and remains extremely wholesome

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwuClKryAhQ

lol Zen School Of Motoring got a BBC deal!

I am addicted to a few music reaction youtubers, not in a particularly healthy way, I keep staying up late impulsively going through their channels picking out all the songs I like. if I could stop after 2 or 3 it would be fine, but no, I do not have that kind of self control.

Same. I find it fascinating to watch people react to early Rage Against the Machine for some reason.

I'll watch any reaction video where they do Great Gig in the Sky

yeah I have seen plenty of RATM and Pink Floyd, current favourite is Dave's performance of Black from last year's Brit Awards.

big all gas no brakes energy: nyc edition here
https://www.instagram.com/sidetalknyc/

Did any of his Capitol footage come out?

dude has a tv deal, i'm sure he's either saving it for or to directly promote that, would be hard to imagine more valuable marketing

well, then again... this is from yesterday:

I am no longer associated with All Gas No Brakes.

I no longer receive any of the Patreon crowdfunding, YouTube monetization or any other show income.

Nic and Evan, who lived in the RV and created the original show material, are also no longer involved.

We have no control over the accounts or future of the show.

When was 20, I wrote a book called 'All Gas No Brakes' about hitchhiking around America as a teenager. At 21, I pitched the idea of a video-based road show to a production company, who loaned me an RV to make videos and explore America with my best friends.

I was ecstatic, who I signed an employment contract without reading it.

Lesson learned.

Thank you for supporting me these past years. It's been the time of my life. I can't wait to show you guys what I'm doing next.

This is not the end ..

It's only the beginning to a bright, independent future for the team.

I love y'all.

- Andrew

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMNnFMOsHvg/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/23/style/all-gas-no-brakes.html

The obvious lesson is of course "read employment contracts before you sign them", but the Doing Things Media people were/are nuts to actually fire them (and absolutely tank the value of the branding they own in the process).

it's hard to imagine that brand surviving without Andrew but I can see Andrew doing just fine working with Abso Lutely

yeah, don't see a scenario where this plays out well for his ex-producers

if they actually try to put out new "AGNB" content with a new host, they're going to get more viciously downvoted/spammed/etc than any youtube content in recent memory

According to people who worked on the show, Mr. Hailey asked Mr. Callaghan to focus on “party content” rather than news. “Reid from Doing Things was constantly pressuring us to make the show less political,” said Mr. Kahn.

It requires an impressive amount of stupidity to not realize what was driving its popularity and how they could have ridden it to no show jobs executive producing a television series instead of praying every day that a change to the Instagram algorithm doesn't zero out their meme accounts.

AGNB is back, kind of:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9f1aOOIg4Uo

that is quite a cast of characters there

Recommended by Clayton Ashley on a Polygon stream, I'm really enjoying this dude who plays Skylines from a socialist pov.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk

lindsay ellis has been having a rough couple of weeks

oh? I haven't kept up with her or her stuff at all

I saw something a couple weeks ago about a controversy involving her on twitter resulting in her deleting her account, her apparent offense sounded like a benign opinion that was not worth anyone getting upset over but I stopped investigating pretty quickly as it was depressing me.

Answer: She recently tweeted about Raya and the Last Dragon, bringing plot comparisons to Avatar: The Last Airbender.

People became aggravated because it was interpreted that she was saying that Raya copied Avatar thematically as Asian. It got blown up further by the fact that Avatar's primary writers are white and Raya's writers are Asian.

It then began to snowball to include things she had previously been in hot water for, such as a poor joke about Reylo-esque shipping in things like the Harriet Tubman movie; her personal experiences with trans male friends not being so badly harassed after fully transitioning; among other things.

It can be inferred that she started receiving harassment, as all these things eventually devolve into. In response, she probably deactivated her account to get a break from it, and the people that got mad at her took that as a victory, and are taking a lap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mef2yg/what_is_going_on_with_lindsay_ellis_being/gsgfz04?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3

I figured as much.

benign opinion seems about right but people want a fight

I'm really really glad my income is not tied to working publicly online doing anything it seems very bad

1:40 for the response video. Nope.

Rear Window is like eight minutes longer than that.

oh nooooo

20 minutes longer than Killer of Sheep

To be fair, I watched a bit and it's not just her response video, it's more of an overview of the concept of cancelling in general.

Still didn't last long because shortly into it I'd sort of made me mind up that the lessons here were a) don't get into fights on twitter and b) fandoms centred around stuff for children are mostly populated by deranged people and actual children. Obviously I don't have my livelihood tied up into this demographic so things are harder for her.

I LOVE Two Minute Papers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

Found a problem with the YouTube parser! I tried to link to a channel above. Sample video instead:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6SJ19OgHi4w

If you posted it as a link it would have been fine :)

ah.

Think there may have been chat about this on ILX before but why are all videos by high profile youtubers so long now? I'm assuming it's market-driven, and can kinda understand that for audiences who just want to halfwatch someone stream some video game for five hours, but why does it work for video essays/explainers?

increased appetite for Content, bigger audience->bigger production budget->ostensibly better videos, gotta take more time out and thank the patreon supporters, etc.

Yeah, I get that with, say, ContraPoints where there is actual set design, but with a lot of others the difference seems to be entirely graduating from "here's me talking to a camera for 20min" to "here's me talking to a camera for 2 hours".

I don’t watch youtubers who make videos that long, but considering YouTube’s upsell pitch is “audio keeps playing even when the video isn’t being displayed” I think a lot of people basically use YouTube as a podcast app

I also assume lockdown has made watching never-ending videos a less off-putting prospect than usual.

Contrapoints has said the algorithm rewards longer videos, I think.

I was aware of this channel (Crime Pays But Botany Doesn't) before but hadn't watched much until a friend sent me a link to the videos he made in the UP of Michigan, where I grew up. Having lived in Chicago I find the heavy accent mostly hilarious, it's like watching one of the Superfans talk about botany and geology. Other people might find it a bit much but I dunno.

This is one of his UP videos:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfGETxg2ofU

That was awesome.

2 Minute Papers looks entertaining, thanks!

I like to watch old episodes of Only Connect on Youtube -- by far the most fun gameshow I've seen.
Here's a playlist of season 10

An old standard with one of his funniest yet. His brother is like the stoned version of him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrsnnFgHZaA

I mentioned forestyforest in here a bit more than a year ago, but really want to highlight him again as his videos have only gone from strength to strength in that time and he remains the most fantastically awesome and wholesome seeming guy. His drone shots of driving through the Canadian backcountry and from various mountain summits are fantastic to see and his wry sense of humour comes out in his wee edits and interludes. My overall favourite YouTuber nowadays, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=videos

Urgh, I was trying to share link to the channel in general, but that doesn't seem to have worked very well. Try below instead...

forestyforest on YouTube

any particular favorites? there's a lot!

I'll try to find some of the ones with more outdoors and mountain summit stuff, as those are the really good ones for me. Recently quite a few videos have been more van life oriented while he tweaks his new larger 4x4 van, which are probably not the most exciting or indicative introductions to the channel.

This guy is doing some good work, IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WeEyncm_jQ